When Enforcement Enthusiasm Backfires

Sometimes, the desire to enforce the rules creates a nightmare for management, and it’s difficult to get staff to stop black-and-white thinking when they know they are “right.” This article provides some ideas for addressing this situation.

Parking Policy Center Continues Shoup Legacy

The UCLA Center for Parking Policy was launched in 2025 to carry forward Donald Shoup’s legacy of connecting parking research with wider audiences.

From Enforcement to Intelligence

What cities are beginning to recognize is that enforcement systems, when powered by artificial intelligence (AI), are not just regulatory tools. They are one of the most immediate and scalable ways to build real-time visibility across urban environments.

Monthly Parking as Urban Mobility’s Next Frontier 

For the past decade, cities have treated mobility like a grand experiment, trying to find the most effective ways to integrate electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure, micromobility solutions like rentable bikes and scooters, carpooling, updated public transportation options, and congestion pricing. And yet, one of the most powerful levers in the urban mobility system has remained largely untouched — monthly parking. 

Parking Management Goes Three Dimensional

From occupancy monitoring to vehicle classification, lidar-based systems enable operators to understand parking dynamics with a level of detail that traditional solutions often cannot achieve.

Rethinking the Occupancy Target

What matters more than how full the curb is at any given moment is how productive that curb is over the course of a day. Productivity, in this context, is best measured not by occupancy, but by how many different vehicles are served.

Eugene Parking Meters Become Public Art 

In Eugene, Oregon, artists have used five-inch-diameter metal discs to repurpose defunct parking meters around the city to deter littering and promote whimsy.

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